Abstract: A hybrid single pass, multi-pass full color printing system is provided and includes (a) a moveable intermediate transfer belt (ITB) mounted within a machine frame and having a path of movement; (b) a plurality of single pass image output modules mounted along the path of movement, each having imaging devices including an image carrying member and a single developer housing containing a single color developer for forming an image in a single pass on the image carrying member for transfer onto the ITB; and (c) at least one single pass, multi-pass image output module mounted along the path of movement and having imaging devices including an image bearing member and a plural number of selectable developer housings, and each of the selectable developer housings containing a single spot color developer for forming spot color images in single passes and in multiple passes on the image bearing member for transfer onto the ITB.

Abstract: A method of correcting periodic banding defects in a printing system is provided. The method comprises: determining a banding profile estimate; determining a compensation profile; adjusting the compensation profile based on the transfer function of a motion system and the transfer function of a printing system; waiting until a defect once-around signal returns; and applying the output of the adjustment step to a controller controlling the speed of an imaging surface.

Abstract: An image forming system includes: plural printing units each provided for each of different basic printing colors; and plural image processing units each provided in association with each of the printing units, and that generate image data for a basic color of the image processing unit's part and image data for other basic colors than the image processing unit's part required for combining processing of the image data for the basic color of the image processing unit's part, based on input printing data, and output resultant image data to a corresponding one of the printing units.

Abstract: A guide is used to protect a corona cartridge during shipping and during insertion into an electrostatic marking apparatus. The guide has dimensions that will permit the cartridge to fit therein and has a locking mechanism that securely holds the cartridge in place during shipment or movement. When the cartridge is to be removed from the guide and inserted into an electrostatic marking system, a handle attached to a latch is used to free the latch from a groove in the guide. The groove in the guide is located between two upwardly protruding ramps having a slidable side and a locking side that abuts the latch and holds it in place until activation when the latch handle frees it from the groove.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus comprising: a unit which is mountable and removable at an electronic apparatus main body; a locking component; a mounted component which is mounted at the unit; a stopper member which is mounted at the unit and impedes removal of the mounted component from the unit; a first engaged portion which is provided at one of the unit and the stopper member; and a first engaging portion which is provided at the other of the unit and the stopper member, the first engaging portion engaging with the first engaged portion when the stopper member is mounted at the unit and impeding removal of the stopper member from the unit, being operable for releasing the engagement with the first engaged portion, and being inoperable in a state in which the unit is mounted at the electronic apparatus main body, is provided.

Abstract: A document illuminator includes a light-transmissive element having an embedded source of illumination fitted in a cavity formed therein. The light-transmissive element preferably has one or more optical notches and preferably is encased in an opaque surround to promote total internal reflection of the light rays emanating from the LED. The one or more optical notches may include a dual-V notch or an elliptical notch. The reflected light rays are collected at an aperture which in turn transmit light at high power and highly uniform illumination profile to illuminate a document.

Abstract: A carrier includes at least one magnetic material and a conductive material. The conductive material is at least one carbon nanotube. A developer includes a toner and the carrier.

Abstract: A reference level generator for driving an analog circuit to cyclically complete an analog function includes a portion of the analog circuit, a master clock, a control circuit, a detection circuit, an integrating circuit and a reference level circuit. The master clock operates at a master clock speed and provides master clock signals to the analog circuit utilized to complete the analog function. The control circuit is used to start and stop the operation of the portion of the analog circuit. The detection circuit is configured to determine when the analog function is completed and to provide an output indicative of the completion of the analog function. The integrating circuit is driven by the output of the detection circuit and configured to set an analog level that is function of the analog function completion time.

Abstract: A movement analysis apparatus includes: a data acquiring unit that acquires moving image data including a series of image data obtained by photographing a human body; a storing unit that stores target range designating information that designates, within the image data, a moving range of a predetermined part of the human body; a detecting unit that designates, for each set of image data included in the obtained moving image data, a plurality of image areas that correspond to the moving range of the predetermined part of the human body that is designated by the target range designating information, and detects, from the plurality of designated image areas, an image area including the predetermined part of the human body; and an output unit that outputs information representing the results detected by the detecting unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier that carries an image; a developing unit that develops the image on the image carrier into a toner image; a transfer unit that transfers the toner image carried on the image carrier onto a transfer medium; and a cleaning unit that cleans residual toner, having not been transferred by the transfer unit, from the image carrier. The cleaning unit includes a cleaning roller member provided in contact with the image carrier and supplied with a predetermined bias voltage, having a surface layer of a conductive fiber cloth, and a conductive roller member provided in contact with the cleaning roller member and supplied with a predetermined bias voltage.

Abstract: The presently disclosed embodiments are directed to overcoat layers useful in electrostatography. More particularly, the embodiments pertain to an electrostatographic imaging member with an improved overcoat layer including a polymeric binder that lowers the surface energy involved and reduces friction.

Abstract: The present application is a method of producing digital image objects with enhanced halftone edges. The method operates by selecting a target pixel location within the digital image; observing a set of pixels within a pixel observation window superimposed on the digital image relative to the target pixel location; generating edge-state codes for a plurality of pairs of neighboring vectors of pixels within the pixel observation window; generating edge-identification codes from the plurality of edge-state codes using at least one look-up table; and, utilizing the edge-identification code to select and apply to the digital image at the target pixel either a first halftone screen having a first fundamental frequency and a first angle or a second halftone screen having a second fundamental frequency and a second angle, wherein the second frequency and second angle are harmonically matched to the first frequency and first angle.

Abstract: An adhesion promoter for a hot melt adhesive or a pressure sensitive adhesive prepared by admixing a hydrolytic silane compound with an aqueous buffer solution. The adhesive is able to bind at very low surface free energy substrates, such as Xerographic prints contaminated by silicone fuser oil. The hot melt adhesive maintains a substantially stable viscosity at temperature ranging from about 100° C. to about 200° C.

Abstract: In a printing system in which the print media sheets are alternately fed from the same stack in the same tray by two sheet feeders at opposite sides into different sheet paths, at least one of the sheet feeders is repositionable towards and away from the other for feeding different size sheets, and the connecting sheet path is repositionable with the repositioning of the sheet feeder. The repositioning of the sheet feeder and its associated sheet path may be automatic in coordination with the normal resetting of a tray stack edge guide with the loading of different size sheets into the tray. The enhanced rate sheet feeding may be for a dual print engine printing system and/or selectably common or reversed sheet facing. Alternating coordinated lifting of a nudger roll of one sheet feeder with operation of the opposing sheet feeder, and retard nips spaced from the stack, may be provided.

Abstract: Systems and methods for processing automatically generated recommendations. In various exemplary embodiments, a method of producing a recommendation digest for a user includes (a) generating a recommendation log for the user by storing a plurality of recommendations, one or more of the plurality of recommendations relating to a representation of a context that led to the creation of the one or more recommendations for the user, and (b) determining a subset of recommendations by using one or more statistics obtained from processing the plurality of recommendations stored in the log.

Abstract: An ink stick for a phase change ink jet printer is provided. The ink stick includes a first ink stick body segment having a proximal portion and a distal portion, a second ink stick body segment having a proximal portion and a distal portion, and one or more flexible strand portions. The strand portion is formed integrally with the first ink stick body segment and the second ink stick body segment, and connects the proximal portion of the first ink stick body segment and the proximal portion of the second ink stick body segment. The strand portion flexes to permit variation in the distance between the distal portion of the first ink stick body segment and the distal portion of the second ink stick body segment.

Abstract: Toner compositions comprising toner particles including an amorphous resin, a crystalline resin and a charge control agent. The toner compositions having the charge control agent exhibit improved charge performance in the C-zone and the A-zone, and improved RH sensitivity.

Abstract: A process for fabricating an electronic device including: depositing a layer comprising a semiconductor; liquid depositing a dielectric composition comprising a lower-k dielectric material, a higher-k dielectric material, and a liquid, wherein the lower-k dielectric material and the higher-k dielectric material are not phase separated prior to the liquid depositing; and causing phase separation of the lower-k dielectric material and the higher-k dielectric material to form a phase-separated dielectric structure wherein the lower-k dielectric material is in a higher concentration than the higher-k dielectric material in a region of the dielectric structure closest to the layer comprising the semiconductor, wherein the depositing the layer comprising the semiconductor is prior to the liquid depositing the dielectric composition or subsequent to the causing phase separation.